Snowflake's new dashboards let you view numbers inside the data warehouse and ask AI questions right away(zenn.dev)

- Snowflake's new Dashboards (in the documentation, 2.0) display the set numbers a team checks every day on a screen inside Snowflake, and let you ask AI right away about anything you wonder about while looking. The goal is to use it without a separate BI (data visualization) tool. - Dashboards are written by putting SQL and chart definitions in a .dash file, so changes can be tracked with Git. For authoring, if you ask the AI tool CoCo in plain language, it creates tiles, SQL and layout for you. - Placing a placeholder in the SQL turns it into a filter, and you can also use drilldown, where you click a chart to dig from region to city to customer, and chart actions that filter other tiles at the same time. - According to the official documentation, queries run with the viewer's own permissions, so Snowflake permissions apply as they are. The author explains that the only cost is the warehouse usage fee for running queries, and that no BI license is needed.